Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 592] "Follow TCP Stream" (silently) fails to show a connec

Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 06:40:04 +0000 (GMT)
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=592





------- Comment #8 from jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx  2007-04-03 06:40 GMT -------
(In reply to comment #7)

Nice analysis :-)

> OK, so much for the cause of this issue. How to fix it? I see a couple of
> possibilities:
> 
> 1) Add a check for this particular situation in epan/follow.c to set the
> boolean incomplete_tcp_stream to TRUE (this will make gtk/follow_dlg.c display
> "Stream Content (incomplete)" above the text-widget.
> 
> 2) Add a pop-up window with a warning that the content of the tcp-stream is
> incomplete
> 
> 3) Make follow-tcp-stream insert [data-missing] (in another color?) at each
> spot in the text-widget where data is missing in the tracefile.
> 
> I think 1 & 2 are relatively easy to implement, option 3 would be nice, but
> needs a lot of work I think.

I don't like the idea of a pop-up mainly because I find them annoying.  (1)
sounds better to me though I don't know anything about the follow-stream stuff.


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